This chapter sets out the book's focus, namely the historical moment when the concept of “English meter” seemed to stabilize. The main intervention of this book is to alter assumptions about English ...
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This chapter sets out the book's focus, namely the historical moment when the concept of “English meter” seemed to stabilize. The main intervention of this book is to alter assumptions about English meter as a stable concept, to ask what else “English” and “meter” meant, and might mean. It is the premise of this book that the literary movements around the time of the First World War, along with the national, pedagogical, and political movements in the period leading up to it, essentially erased a vast history of debates about versification in English. These debates are the grounds for the claim that poets did not always approach meter as a stable category. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less

Introduction: The Failure of Meter

Meredith Martin

Published in print: 2012-05-06

This chapter sets out the book's focus, namely the historical moment when the concept of “English meter” seemed to stabilize. The main intervention of this book is to alter assumptions about English meter as a stable concept, to ask what else “English” and “meter” meant, and might mean. It is the premise of this book that the literary movements around the time of the First World War, along with the national, pedagogical, and political movements in the period leading up to it, essentially erased a vast history of debates about versification in English. These debates are the grounds for the claim that poets did not always approach meter as a stable category. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

Belle Époque regionalism in France has been misunderstood. As Jean Charles-Brun envisaged it, regionalism was an attempt to bridge the divide between romantic literary movements and modern theories ...
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Belle Époque regionalism in France has been misunderstood. As Jean Charles-Brun envisaged it, regionalism was an attempt to bridge the divide between romantic literary movements and modern theories of the state. There was thus a dichotomy in regionalism between the mystique of the cultural regionalist and the politique of those whose attention was focused on problems of state reform. This dichotomy had been equally present in the Félibrige, the southern literary association where Charles-Brun had begun his own journalistic career. In fact, any analysis of the prehistory of the Fédération Régionaliste Française (FRF) must be based on an understanding of the debate within the Félibrige between those who pursued exclusively the cultural renaissance of southern France and the avant-garde, the (often younger) félibres who attempted to make the movement take account of the political consequences of this renaissance. Both Charles-Brun and Louis-Xavier de Ricard shared common intellectual ground with the federalism of Maurice Barres and Charles Maurras, but their own understanding of federalism differed on certain fundamental points.Less

Charles-Brun and the Félibrige: Mistral or Louis-Xavier de Ricard?

JULIAN WRIGHT

Published in print: 2003-07-10

Belle Époque regionalism in France has been misunderstood. As Jean Charles-Brun envisaged it, regionalism was an attempt to bridge the divide between romantic literary movements and modern theories of the state. There was thus a dichotomy in regionalism between the mystique of the cultural regionalist and the politique of those whose attention was focused on problems of state reform. This dichotomy had been equally present in the Félibrige, the southern literary association where Charles-Brun had begun his own journalistic career. In fact, any analysis of the prehistory of the Fédération Régionaliste Française (FRF) must be based on an understanding of the debate within the Félibrige between those who pursued exclusively the cultural renaissance of southern France and the avant-garde, the (often younger) félibres who attempted to make the movement take account of the political consequences of this renaissance. Both Charles-Brun and Louis-Xavier de Ricard shared common intellectual ground with the federalism of Maurice Barres and Charles Maurras, but their own understanding of federalism differed on certain fundamental points.

This chapter examines the politics of polarity in the Algerianist literary movement and colonial novel in the French colony of Algeria during the early part of the 20th century. It traces the efforts ...
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This chapter examines the politics of polarity in the Algerianist literary movement and colonial novel in the French colony of Algeria during the early part of the 20th century. It traces the efforts of Algerian intellectuals to position the colony's fictional production within the context of the developing colonial novel. It also analyses the theory and practice of the Algerianist literary movement which was inspired by Robert Randau.Less

The Politics of Polarity: The Colonial Novel and the Algerianists

Peter Dunwoodie

Published in print: 1998-11-26

This chapter examines the politics of polarity in the Algerianist literary movement and colonial novel in the French colony of Algeria during the early part of the 20th century. It traces the efforts of Algerian intellectuals to position the colony's fictional production within the context of the developing colonial novel. It also analyses the theory and practice of the Algerianist literary movement which was inspired by Robert Randau.

This chapter will discuss the early life and education of one of Italy's foremost novelists — Luigi Pirandello. The chapter also tackles the era, the different Italian literary movements, and the ...
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This chapter will discuss the early life and education of one of Italy's foremost novelists — Luigi Pirandello. The chapter also tackles the era, the different Italian literary movements, and the writing principles of authors during the time of his birth. This chapter discusses Pirandello's struggles as he was still in the early process of becoming a novelist. In addition, this chapter discusses the difference of Luigi Pirandello as a real writer to other prominent colleagues during his time. It discusses how Pirandello brought his characters to life in a way that he himself personified each and every single character to add emphasis on the roles played by each. The chapter also provides overviews on different characters that Pirandello made and their impact on the modern literary movement. The chapter also includes some of Pirandello's most notable works that would eventually set the trend for a higher form of Italian literary writing.Less

Real and Implied Authors

Ann Hallamore Caesar

Published in print: 1998-01-22

This chapter will discuss the early life and education of one of Italy's foremost novelists — Luigi Pirandello. The chapter also tackles the era, the different Italian literary movements, and the writing principles of authors during the time of his birth. This chapter discusses Pirandello's struggles as he was still in the early process of becoming a novelist. In addition, this chapter discusses the difference of Luigi Pirandello as a real writer to other prominent colleagues during his time. It discusses how Pirandello brought his characters to life in a way that he himself personified each and every single character to add emphasis on the roles played by each. The chapter also provides overviews on different characters that Pirandello made and their impact on the modern literary movement. The chapter also includes some of Pirandello's most notable works that would eventually set the trend for a higher form of Italian literary writing.

During the Renaissance period, the Roman Church experienced external challenges, but it maintained its authority and supremacy through judicial, theological, and mystical powers and pronouncements. ...
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During the Renaissance period, the Roman Church experienced external challenges, but it maintained its authority and supremacy through judicial, theological, and mystical powers and pronouncements. One way in which the Church maintained its primacy was through elaborate coats of arms and through various ceremonies, which were made public to indicate the power and dignity of the Roman See. Papal clerks and officials were pressured into conforming to the proceedings and practices of the Church and to observe confraternity; however, patronage and clientage often played a major part in the lives and the duties of court officials. This chapter discusses the emergence of disparate groups in the ranks of court officials in the fourteenth century. These groups created a new literary movement and headed the curial humanism that created sardonic and critical literatures on the Roman court and the clergy. In this literary movement, men of dissent aspired for moral nobility and rallied for the life of otium, of learned leisure, and to depart from a life of subservience, duty, and business.Less

The Curial Point of View

Peter Partner

Published in print: 1990-10-04

During the Renaissance period, the Roman Church experienced external challenges, but it maintained its authority and supremacy through judicial, theological, and mystical powers and pronouncements. One way in which the Church maintained its primacy was through elaborate coats of arms and through various ceremonies, which were made public to indicate the power and dignity of the Roman See. Papal clerks and officials were pressured into conforming to the proceedings and practices of the Church and to observe confraternity; however, patronage and clientage often played a major part in the lives and the duties of court officials. This chapter discusses the emergence of disparate groups in the ranks of court officials in the fourteenth century. These groups created a new literary movement and headed the curial humanism that created sardonic and critical literatures on the Roman court and the clergy. In this literary movement, men of dissent aspired for moral nobility and rallied for the life of otium, of learned leisure, and to depart from a life of subservience, duty, and business.

This chapter examines the conflict between the Ecole d'Alger literary movement and the colonial presence in Algeria. It discusses the reversal of the denigration to which Algerians had been subjected ...
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This chapter examines the conflict between the Ecole d'Alger literary movement and the colonial presence in Algeria. It discusses the reversal of the denigration to which Algerians had been subjected in pre-Algerianist fiction. The dynamism and vitality of life in North African towns depicted by the Algerianists then became a central topos of some of the writers of the Ecole d'Alger. This chapter discusses how theatre and radio were exploited in a drive to communicate directly with a local public outside urban cultural circuits analyses Albert Camus' Le Premier Homme and Marcel Moussy's Arcole ou la terre promise.Less

A Question of Belonging: the Ecole d’Alger and the Colonial Presence

Peter Dunwoodie

Published in print: 1998-11-26

This chapter examines the conflict between the Ecole d'Alger literary movement and the colonial presence in Algeria. It discusses the reversal of the denigration to which Algerians had been subjected in pre-Algerianist fiction. The dynamism and vitality of life in North African towns depicted by the Algerianists then became a central topos of some of the writers of the Ecole d'Alger. This chapter discusses how theatre and radio were exploited in a drive to communicate directly with a local public outside urban cultural circuits analyses Albert Camus' Le Premier Homme and Marcel Moussy's Arcole ou la terre promise.

This chapter discusses the Partito Politico Futurista, which is a modernist literary movement, specifically focusing on its trajectory and the last years of futurism's ‘first’ or heroic phase. It ...
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This chapter discusses the Partito Politico Futurista, which is a modernist literary movement, specifically focusing on its trajectory and the last years of futurism's ‘first’ or heroic phase. It emphasises that a different form of experimentation emerged in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's ‘literary’ work as he turned to law as an entity of aesthetic play.Less

The Party and the Book: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurism and Amateur Democracy

Sascha Bru

Published in print: 2009-10-20

This chapter discusses the Partito Politico Futurista, which is a modernist literary movement, specifically focusing on its trajectory and the last years of futurism's ‘first’ or heroic phase. It emphasises that a different form of experimentation emerged in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's ‘literary’ work as he turned to law as an entity of aesthetic play.

This chapter examines the history of the Village Prose, a postwar literary movement in Russian that lasted from 1956 to 1980. It analyzes what was so provocative about the Village Prose and what it ...
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This chapter examines the history of the Village Prose, a postwar literary movement in Russian that lasted from 1956 to 1980. It analyzes what was so provocative about the Village Prose and what it threatened in Soviet and post-Soviet society. The chapter considers the five distinct approaches to the interpretation of the codes of the Village Prose, and suggests that the frequently changing and sharply differing interpretations of post-Stalinist rural literature show how texts can lose their specificity as they become pre-texts for debate.Less

The Dangerous Narrative of the Russian Village

Kathleen Parthé

Published in print: 2004-12-11

This chapter examines the history of the Village Prose, a postwar literary movement in Russian that lasted from 1956 to 1980. It analyzes what was so provocative about the Village Prose and what it threatened in Soviet and post-Soviet society. The chapter considers the five distinct approaches to the interpretation of the codes of the Village Prose, and suggests that the frequently changing and sharply differing interpretations of post-Stalinist rural literature show how texts can lose their specificity as they become pre-texts for debate.

This chapter analyses the deferral of the ideal of countering the earlier strategies of erasure in the fiction of the Ecole d'Alger literary movement in Algeria. It explains that the works of Albert ...
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This chapter analyses the deferral of the ideal of countering the earlier strategies of erasure in the fiction of the Ecole d'Alger literary movement in Algeria. It explains that the works of Albert Camus, René-Jean Clot, and Marcel Moussy focused on the European population and critique many of the automatisms which marked that population. Clot's works, on the other hand, foregrounded the traditional colonial response which pastische racist stereotyping resulting from the always only partly successful derogatory descriptions of the Arab presence as alien, impenetrable, and unacceptable.Less

A Dream Deferred: Staging the Colonial Conflict in the Novels of the Ecole d’Alger

Peter Dunwoodie

Published in print: 1998-11-26

This chapter analyses the deferral of the ideal of countering the earlier strategies of erasure in the fiction of the Ecole d'Alger literary movement in Algeria. It explains that the works of Albert Camus, René-Jean Clot, and Marcel Moussy focused on the European population and critique many of the automatisms which marked that population. Clot's works, on the other hand, foregrounded the traditional colonial response which pastische racist stereotyping resulting from the always only partly successful derogatory descriptions of the Arab presence as alien, impenetrable, and unacceptable.

This introductory chapter frames the post-1945 South Korean literary movement within the division of the Korean peninsula in 1945 under the Soviet and U.S. military occupations in North and South, as ...
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This introductory chapter frames the post-1945 South Korean literary movement within the division of the Korean peninsula in 1945 under the Soviet and U.S. military occupations in North and South, as well as the subsequent inauguration of separate, competing sovereign regimes in 1948—the organization of the colonial past and the excision of the North thus set in motion a multilayered, shifting politics of what could be seen or spoken. In particular, Cold War South Korean statism (itself a rearticulation of the colonial statism that preceded it) relied on a visual order increasingly bound up, in turn, with the biopolitics of “free world” developmentalism. Within this context, post-1945 cultural forms find ways to address the display of “South Korea” as a postcolonial, developmentalist space at once opposing and mirroring its northern counterpart in the global Cold War.Less

Introduction

Theodore Hughes

Published in print: 2014-05-06

This introductory chapter frames the post-1945 South Korean literary movement within the division of the Korean peninsula in 1945 under the Soviet and U.S. military occupations in North and South, as well as the subsequent inauguration of separate, competing sovereign regimes in 1948—the organization of the colonial past and the excision of the North thus set in motion a multilayered, shifting politics of what could be seen or spoken. In particular, Cold War South Korean statism (itself a rearticulation of the colonial statism that preceded it) relied on a visual order increasingly bound up, in turn, with the biopolitics of “free world” developmentalism. Within this context, post-1945 cultural forms find ways to address the display of “South Korea” as a postcolonial, developmentalist space at once opposing and mirroring its northern counterpart in the global Cold War.